Quotes About Gardening

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

It's really nice to have hobbies that don't involve any sort of technology.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

When spring came I dug up the garden and planted it, and weeded it, and prayed over it, and fidgeted; and almost three years of lying fallow had agreed with it, because it produced radishes the size of onions, potatoes the size of melons, and melons the size of small sheep. The herb border ran wild, and the air smelled wonderful.

Aunt and Katriona kept a few chickens, but the only other domestic animal they had—if either "domestic" or "had" was applicable—was Flinx, their not-a-house-cat. He was presently a fat tortoiseshell puddle sprawled in the sunlight a few rows over. Since he was only crushing a few nonessential greens, which would regrow anyway, they let him be.

It made her laugh - weeding with her fingernails - and the real weight of the earth comforted her.... She knew this garden would do it's best for her. It didn't matter how she knew.

The garden keeps me focused on inspiring thoughts, the lighthouse reminds me that the purpose of life is a life of purpose, the sumo wrestler keeps me centered on continuous self-discovery, while the pink wire cable links me to the wonders of willpower.

This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

By his mid-thirties, he had installed a telegraph wire between home and office so that he could spend three or four afternoons each week at home, planting trees, gardening, and enjoying the sunshine.

Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Aangezien wanhoop een buitensporigheid was die hij niet kende, boog hij zich over datgene wat er was overgebleven van zijn leven, en begon dat opnieuw te verzorgen, met de onwrikbare vasthoudendheid van een tuinman aan het werk, de ochtend na de storm.

Gardeners impose human values on disorderly nature, knowing full well that nature must win in the end. Gardening is gentle gallantry. - Rosemary Butler

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Use plants to bring life.

Fingers now scented with sage and rosemary, a kneeling gardener is lost in savory memories.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.